D Doug

Brien

Position: CEO and Co-Founder

Company: Mynd
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Experience: 26 years exp

Cont act Inf o:

Email: doug@mynd.co, dob@berkeley.edu, doug@myndmanagement.com,
doug@brien.net, doug@kicking.com, dbrien@att.net
Phone: +1 510-250-5642, +1 401-965-8776, +1 612-926-8905, +1 510-842-3441, +1
415-298-1420, +1 925-984-1180, (510) 306-2945, +1 925-451-4296, +1 207-
251-3207, +1 510-250-2200, (510) 306-4441, +19256482781, +15045966702,
+15105966702, +15108489932

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Skills
Asset Management Asset Managment Business Strategy Due Diligence Entrepreneurship Investments

Investors Private Equity Real Estate Real Estate Development Real Estate Economics

Real Estate Transactions Salesforce.com Start-ups Team Building Valuation

Work experience
Sep 2017 - current time
May 2016 - current time
May 2016 - May 2017
Jan 2016 - current time
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Feb 2014 - Mar 2015
Jan 2009 - Jan 2017
Jul 1999 - Dec 2000
Jan 1994 - Jan 2005
Executive In Residence
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
CEO and Co-Founder
Mynd
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Mynd – Property Management
Mynd is creating a simpler, more profitable and more trustworthy way to own
and manage individual investment properties in the US. Mynd will offer
unparalleled transparency, so that owners feel assured their investments are in
good hands.
Board Member
United States Olympic Ethics Committee
CEO
Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust
Doug moved from Co-CEO to CEO upon the departure of Co-CEO Gary Beasley.
Co-CEO
Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Waypoint Real Estate Group
Waypoint Real Estate Group managed and owned ~ 3,100 single family homes.
NFLPA Players Representative - New Orleans Saints
NFL Players Association
placekicker
National Football League (NFL)
NFL Placekicker

Educat ion
1998 - 2002 Finance
MBA
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business
1989 - 1994 Political Economy
Political Economies
University of California, Berkeley
1986 - 1989 De La Salle High School

Head line
CEO and Co-Founder at Mynd Management

Summary
A former Super Bowl-winning NFL placekicker, Brien got his start in real estate following the collapse of the housing
market in early 2009, when he and Colin Wiel began buying single-family homes to renovate and rent out. Together,
they were able to scale up their company in an industry that had been the domain of smaller players, building a $3
billion portfolio with over 17,000 single-family rental homes that attracted institutional investors and competition
from private equity firms. With the success of Waypoint Homes, Wiel and Brien defied critics to put the single-family
residential sector on the map as a profitable and scalable financial asset class.

Publicat ions
The Big Long: How Going Big on an Outrageous Idea Transformed the Real Estate Industry
In 2008, with housing prices in free fall, even experienced investors wouldn’t touch the single-family rental (SFR)
home market. It was too unmanageable, too hard to scale. According to the experts, SFR wasn’t even a real asset
class. But Doug Brien and Colin Wiel looked at the homes of the Bay Area’s working class communities and saw
something else. They saw an opportunity not just to build a profitable business, but to transform residential real
estate, establish SFR as a legitimate institutional investment, and restore devastated neighborhoods. The Big Long is
the story of how two friends defied pundits, doomsayers, and house-flippers to “go long” on a revolutionary
business idea. Through FBI investigations, financial reversals, and a pandemic, they persevered to build the SFR
industry’s pioneering company, Waypoint. The Big Long shows that wealth and success don’t come from short-sale
thinking and meme stocks but from committing to a vision and going BIG.

Organizat ions
Build
NLFPA Retired Players Association
United States Olympics Ethics Committee